gin

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries or aromatics such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root as flavoring.

n. Any of several machines or devices, especially:

n. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.

n. A pile driver.

n. A snare or trap for game.

n. A pump operated by a windmill.

n. A cotton gin.

transitive v. To remove the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.

transitive v. To trap in a gin.

n. Gin rummy.

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n. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

n. gin rummy

n. drawing the best card or combination of cards

n. A trick; a device or instrument.

n. A snare or trap for game.

n. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.

n. A pile driver.

n. A windpump.

n. A cotton gin.

v. To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

v. To trap something in a gin.

v. To invent (via Irish), see gin up

n. An Aboriginal woman.

v. To begin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

conj. If.

n. A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

n. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

n.

n. A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

n. A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

n. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

prep. Against; near by; towards.

intransitive v. To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to. See gan.

transitive v. To catch in a trap.

transitive v. To clear of seeds by a machine.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To begin (which see).

[In Middle English the preterit of this verb (gan, gon, can, con, etc.) was much used with a following infinitive, with or without to, as having, besides its regular inceptive meaning ‘began to,’ a merely preterit force, being equivalent to the simple preterit of the second verb: as, he gan go, equivalent to he did go or he went. This auxiliary was supplanted in the fifteenth century by did, though its use, as an archaism, continued much later.

Against (a certain time); by: as, I′ ll be there gin five o′ clock.

If; suppose.

To catch in a trap.

To clear (cotton) of seeds by means of the cotton-gin.

n.I. Contrivance; crafty means; artifice.

n. A mechanical contrivance; a machine; an engine.

n. An engine of torture.

n. A machine used instead of a crane, consisting essentially of three poles from 12 to 15 feet in length, often tapering from the lower extremity to the top, and united at their upper extremities, whence a block and tackle is suspended, the lower extremities being planted in the ground about 8 or 9 feet asunder, and having a windlass attached to two of them.

n. In coal-mining, the machinery for raising ore or coal from a mine by horse-power. [Eng.] Generally called whim or whim-gin in the United States.

n. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton, hence called a cotton-gin. See cut undercotton-gin.

n. A machine for driving piles.

n. A pump moved by rotary sails.

n. A trap; a snare; a springe.

n. An aromatic spirit prepared from rye or other grain and flavored with juniper-berries.

n. a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points

n. a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

n. strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

v. separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

n. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Alteration of geneva, from Dutch jenever, from Middle Dutch geniver, juniper, from Old French geneivre, from Vulgar Latin *iiniperus, from Latin iūniperus.

Middle English, from Old French, short for engin, skill; see engine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from Dutch genever ("juniper") from the Old French genevre, from Latin iūniperus ("juniper"). Hence Gin rummy first attested 1941.

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Aphetism of Old French engin ("engine").

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From Middle English ginnen, from Old English ginnan ("to open", "to cut open")

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From Dharug dyin, but having acquired a derogatory tone.

Examples

In addition to this analysis I have also one of Messrs. Peters 'gin, equally satisfactory, and as Van Hoytima and Peters are the two great suppliers of the gin that goes to West Africa, I think the above is an answer to the "poison" statements, and should be sufficient evidence against it for all people who are not themselves absolute teetotalers.

I'm thinkin 'gin ane o' the bairnies that he took upo ''s knee, -- an' he was ill-pleased wi 'them' at wad hae sheued them awa ', -- gin ane o' them had hauden up his wee timmer horsie, wi 'a broken leg, and had prayed him to work a miracle an' men 'the leg, he wadna hae wrocht a miracle maybe, I daursay, but he wad hae smilet, or maybe lauchen a wee, and he wad hae men't the leg some gait or ither to please the bairnie.

But there may be sic a thing as loupin 'into the sea o' life oot o 'the ark o' salvation; an 'gin ye loup in whan he doesna call ye, or gin ye getna a grip o' his han ', whan he does, ye're sure to droon, as sure's ane o' the swine that ran heedlong in and perished i 'the water. "

Warren also says Berkshire, and I would have adopt this for the Post company, does not play what he calls gin rummy management in which you discard a business at every turn to try to do something with the stock price.

THE TRICK For me, the hardest part of making sloe gin is keeping my patience while it mellows.

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"... the spiritous scourge of the age came not from home-grown liquors but from Dutch genever, or gin. Made of corn spirits and flavoured with the juniper that gave it its name, gin was also brewed in grimy back alleys, but even the imports were cheap and potent enough to ruin the poor.... Gin continued to be sold under the name of 'Parliamentary Brandy'; only when the price of grain rose in the 1750s, taking the price of gin with it, were the poor forced to turn elsewhere for comfort and oblivion."

--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 223